Alex took out his phone and dialed David.
"Hello?" David answered the phone with a chuckle. "All settled?"
Alex responded sullenly, "I messed up."
David thought he had heard wrong. 'How could something as simple as delivering money be messed up?' he wondered.
Alex, all brawn and no brains, was originally a street punk who had never had a day of education in his life. He had once gotten into a fight with Adrian by chance and had followed him ever since his defeat.
"Yeah, messed up." David knew Alex's temperament and was worried that being too direct would upset him. After some deliberation, he tentatively asked, "May I ask how you messed it up?"
Alex said with a straight face, "I gave him the check, and he asked me if Vivian was Adrian's mistress. Before I could explain, he opened the
